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The Economist: Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced

By The Economist.

Published April 3, 2021. Updated April 3 at 7:57 am

In this file photo taken on Jan. 22, 2021, an employee in protective gear works on an assembly line for manufacturing vials of Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at India's Serum Institute in Pune.

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Flight EK 787 touched down in Accra at 7.39am on February 24th. It was carrying 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine. The shots arrived in Ghana from the Serum Institute in Pune, India—the biggest vaccine-maker in the world. It was the first delivery of jabs made through COVAX, a vaccine-sharing initiative.